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PoliGAF 2017 |OT4| The leaks are coming from inside the white house
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Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
I think the new analysis has Ted Cruz's amendment.
Ether_Snake
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He's reinforcing his base's dedication, but not growing it. And like I always say when he'll want to quit he'll get himself kicked out to carry on that fight.
Imagine if he had lost the election, his whole "the election is rigged" thing was a prequel to what would have followed. Hillary could have only gotten less popular over time, and he would have been attacking her non-stop with a lot more support than he had when he was attacking Obama. He'd invited on FOX all the time, and probably then run and win in 2020. We would have had a repeat of 2016 but with Hillary even more weakened.
Imagine if he had lost the election, his whole "the election is rigged" thing was a prequel to what would have followed. Hillary could have only gotten less popular over time, and he would have been attacking her non-stop with a lot more support than he had when he was attacking Obama. He'd invited on FOX all the time, and probably then run and win in 2020. We would have had a repeat of 2016 but with Hillary even more weakened.
ArkhamFantasy
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I know everyone likes to pick on him because he the easiest soundbyte to make fun of, but damn near everyone was praising trump that night, it was as infuriating as it was terrifying.
All it takes is for him to stop tweeting, read from a teleprompter, and refrain from shitting on the walls and the media is all over his dick.
balladofwindfishes
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Cruz's ammendment likely doesn't even pass reconciliation rules
The scary thing is how bad someone actually competent could be.
RustyNails
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Or when he launches a couple of missiles into Syria. Lord knows what happens when he launches full scale war on Iran or some shit.
He seems to be aiming for North Korea. Not sure how that would go though since he has business interests in China.
For what it's worth, it seems more like Trump's tweets overtook healthcare news once it was clear they weren't going to pass the bill last week.
balladofwindfishes
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No health care news lost attention due to Trump's tweets
ArkhamFantasy
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I disagree with this, the healthcare news didnt die down until McConnel admitted it wasnt going to go to the floor yet.
ShadowSwordmaster
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That is not true. Trumps tweets had more attention half way in the week with the Mika tweet.
Prof. Bathtub
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If they think that a news issue is important, they should just report on it as such. The use of "while you looked at X, they did Y" or "GOP quietly does Z" honestly is tiring. Apologies to the hypothetical ADD reader whom they seem to be addressing.
Suikoguy
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I'd disagree with this part, but without having the house and senate, that's likely exactly what would have happened.
Can you?
They'll push through this garbage bill.
Crush healthcare in the US as we know it, blaming Obama in the process saying he started the mess and that he is the reason why the Republicans had to do what they did.
Once that is done, they impeach Trump, put Pence in his place and ride into the future of their Handmaidens tale utopia.
balladofwindfishes
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I thought posts like this went extinct once it became clear the bill was on death's door
ShadowSwordmaster
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People will not buy this.
Metaphoreus
This is semantics, and nothing more
It also risks establishing gab.ai as a serious competitor. If Trump moves his account there, probably millions of his followers--supporters and opponents--would create an account. And suddenly all those media stories about Trump's tweets would be about Trump's gabs, leading to even greater exposure for Gab.
ArkhamFantasy
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The dude admitted to sexual assault, mocked a disabled reporter, insulted a gold star family, mocked McCain for being a POW, advocated violence at a rally and they voted for him, you think calling some media people mean names is gonna change their minds?
I know. I'm just being silly. It's not like you can take this current government seriously anymore, anyway.
ShadowSwordmaster
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This is true.
Basileus777
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Do reconciliation rules even exist anymore? The parliamentarian has basically let anything go.
I've honestly forgotten what night it was suppose to be that he became president.
ShadowSwordmaster
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That is interesting.
Poor GRIMES
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CNN should make a story about this, and another follow-up story when he is exposed for hiring Russian Twitter bots.
MSM needs blanket coverage explaining how Trump is less popular on twitter than Obama.
Spoiled Milk
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Feb 28th, during his state of the union.
I was just reading that thread. What that really tells me is that Twitter's userbase is pretty small (20m?!?), but populated by "important" people
Cesare Borgia
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This doesn't seem complicated. It's the most outrageously entertaining tweet he's made and went viral. RTs aren't an endorsement.
whyamihere
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I mean, I think we can say, what a fucking insane tweet, also, healthcare.
Agreed, and it's why I find the Manjoo thread interesting. The tweets are a big deal because the media reports them, not because Easy D actually has a following.
Not necessarily. How much does Trump cross-post his tweets on Facebook?
Dominican Power
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The media should ignore any Trump tweet that doesn't have to do with policy.
whyamihere
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I also -- also -- do not think this is like, purposeful distraction. I do not think Trump cares about healthcare beyond getting a W. He is much more concerned with "winning" his fight with the media.
You want us all to get killed, don't you.
Of course he doesn't care about health care. All he wants are "wins." He doesn't give a damn how many people suffer.
Poodlestrike
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Man, I'd love to see the fallout from this.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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The Distraction theory got debunked in my eyes when it became clear that every "intentional" distraction was just as bad for optics if not worse than whatever is supposedly being distracted from.
"Let's get the heat off of this Healthcare bill by making everyone think I abused my power to blackmail news anchors into giving me fluff pieces!"
His approval has only been dropping over time. If this is an intended strategy it's working very poorly.
No surprise there. The CNN tweet is ridiculous and funny as hell, so tens of thousands of people who hate Trump liked and retweeted.
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SNL has to make a sketch where a kid dressed like Trump is running around the white house tweeting as all his staff is in complete panic mode trying to catch him, some with plush toys, some pissed off, the cook getting cookies and spilling milk all over himself when an hand reaches out of nowhere and grabs a handfull, and then at the end when they finally got him cornered they tell him he won't have anymore chocolate cake if he tweets. He yells that the chocolate cake at the White House isn't even good, the best chocolate cake is only found at Mar-a-Lago! And smack, he punches the tweet button.
Spicer asks Conway who is looking at her phone "What did he tweet?? WHAT DID HE TWEET?!"
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"It's a porn video, where the actress' face has been replaced by Angela Merkel's." as you hear porn sounds.
The point even his most popular tweet doesn't come close to Obama's most banal ones.
Spicer asks Conway who is looking at her phone "What did he tweet?? WHAT DID HE TWEET?!"
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"It's a porn video, where the actress' face has been replaced by Angela Merkel's." as you hear porn sounds.
The point even his most popular tweet doesn't come close to Obama's most banal ones.
It is alarming that the media talking heads are so desperate to accept Trump as a sane, level-headed person in the Oval Office and will take any opportunity possible to jump to that conclusion. But while everyone may have been praising Trump that night, I don't think anyone made a bigger ass out of themselves over it than Van Jones did.
Likewise with the Syria strike, where the most egregious asshole was Brian Williams, who could barely hide his erection over the beautiful missiles we rained down on Syria.
Twitter users are younger and better educated than Facebook users, who seem to lean conservative. I have a feeling that they're also more likely to be black or Hispanic.
So the average Twitter user is a lot more likely to like Obama than Trump.
Deuce Deuce
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Didn't the parliamentarian warn Republicans about trying to tie tax credits to abortions or something like that?
Do the other aspects of this bill violate reconciliation? I'm a little unclear on the exact rules.
Apparently Jared and Ivanka were chilling with the far right's most hated men this weekend.
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/881593525686685698
https://twitter.com/Bencjacobs/status/881593525686685698
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